malaria
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”). Displaced native Old English unlyft (literally “bad air”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria (countable and uncountable, plural malarias)
- A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
- (archaic) Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.
- Synonym: miasma
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 149:
- The doctor had his hands full, as the air was so impregnated with malaria that men who had only landed some twenty-four hours were laid low with this extraordinarily violent type of fever.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria c (singular definite malariaen, not used in plural form)
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ma‧la‧ria
Noun[edit]
malaria f (uncountable)
Descendants[edit]
- → Caribbean Hindustani: maláriyá
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian malaria.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria
Declension[edit]
Inflection of malaria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | malaria | malariat | ||
genitive | malarian | malarioiden malarioitten | ||
partitive | malariaa | malarioita | ||
illative | malariaan | malarioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | malaria | malariat | ||
accusative | nom. | malaria | malariat | |
gen. | malarian | |||
genitive | malarian | malarioiden malarioitten malariainrare | ||
partitive | malariaa | malarioita | ||
inessive | malariassa | malarioissa | ||
elative | malariasta | malarioista | ||
illative | malariaan | malarioihin | ||
adessive | malarialla | malarioilla | ||
ablative | malarialta | malarioilta | ||
allative | malarialle | malarioille | ||
essive | malariana | malarioina | ||
translative | malariaksi | malarioiksi | ||
abessive | malariatta | malarioitta | ||
instructive | — | malarioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “malaria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria f (plural malarias)
Further reading[edit]
- “malaria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch malaria, from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria (first-person possessive malariaku, second-person possessive malariamu, third-person possessive malarianya)
- (medicine) malaria, a disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
Further reading[edit]
- “malaria” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria (uncountable)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mal- (“bad”) + aria (“air”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria f (plural malarie)
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈla.ri.a/, [mäˈɫ̪äriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈla.ri.a/, [mäˈläːriä]
Noun[edit]
malaria f (genitive malariae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | malaria | malariae |
Genitive | malariae | malariārum |
Dative | malariae | malariīs |
Accusative | malariam | malariās |
Ablative | malariā | malariīs |
Vocative | malaria | malariae |
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)
References[edit]
- “malaria” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)
References[edit]
- “malaria” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian malaria.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria f
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- malaria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- malaria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria f (plural malarias)
Further reading[edit]
- “malaria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
malaria (n class, plural malaria)
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria c (uncountable)
Declension[edit]
Declension of malaria | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | malaria | malarian | — | — |
Genitive | malarias | malarians | — | — |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- malaria in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- malaria in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- malaria in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Tok Pisin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
malaria
- English terms borrowed from Italian
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